Chairman Kwon Ik-chang of the Korean National Security Council said, ”There was no pressure from outside... Stop the political strife” in relation to the death of the executive.
On the 19th, Yoo Cheol-hwan, chairman of the Korean Civil Rights Commission, said of the deputy director of the anti-corruption bureau of the commission, who was found dead at his home in Sejong City on the 8th of this month, "He is a capable and kind man.